SWCA 2022: 6 Things We Learned from the Light & Magic Panel

Today they’re legends of filmmaking, but back in the late 1970s they were special effects innovators just trying to make George Lucas’s vision a reality. On Friday at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022, executive producer Ron Howard took the stage alongside VFX titans Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, Joe Johnston, Rose Duignan, and Lucasfilm vice president and […]

Clones at 20 | Costume Designer Trisha Biggar Reflects on Her Most Challenging Film

The middle chapter of the prequel trilogy, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, arrived May 16, 2002. To celebrate the movie’s 20th anniversary, StarWars.com presents Clones at 20, a special series of interviews, editorials, and more. Costume designer Trisha Biggar joined the production staff defining the look of the Star Wars prequel films in 1997 with an affinity for history […]

Clones at 20 | 4 Ways Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Helped Change Filmmaking

The middle chapter of the prequel trilogy, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, arrived May 16, 2002. To celebrate the movie’s 20th anniversary, StarWars.com presents Clones at 20, a special series of interviews, editorials, and more. For a century, the technology of filmmaking remained largely the same. Cameras photographed images on physical rolls of film (as did the microphones for […]